Kezar Stadium

Kezar's records begin with the Board of Park Commissioners appointing architects for the stadium in the 1920s, and then run through six decades of the department renting it out. The commission's 1947 index shows the San Francisco Forty-Niners applying for football dates for that season, alongside payments of $889 to Deemer and Deemer for roof and wall repairs at Kezar Pavilion and $5,913 as a first payment for painting the stadium's outside walls and entrance gates. By 1960 the tenancy was settled in a single sitting: the commission approved a ten-year contract with the 49ers and the Oakland Raiders' 1960 contract, and separately awarded $4,422 to H. E. Rahlman Co. for a protective wall. Once professional football left, the argument turned to what the stadium was for. The 1984 Greater Haight-Ashbury cumulative assessment lists Kezar Stadium reuse among the district's proposed projects, and notes that the department's own remodelling proposals were too speculative to analyse quantitatively. A standing Kezar Stadium Advisory Committee then met through the early 1990s on the everyday terms of use — a proposed fee schedule, and whether alcohol could be sold at the stadium — while the commission amended the stadium's permit policy in 1993 to allow up to two floodlit events in any week between September and mid-November.